Fairy tales, fables and folk tales

A French Puck

Intermediate

6 min read

Among the mountain pastures and valleys that lie in the centre of France there dwelt a mischievous kind of spirit, whose delight it was to play tricks on everybody, and particularly on the shepherds and the cowboys. They never knew when they were safe from him, as he could change himself into a man, woman […]

Weedah the Mocking Bird

K. Langloh Parker
Australian

Intermediate

7 min read

Weedah was playing a great trick on the black fellows who lived near him. He had built himself a number of grass nyunnoos, more than twenty. He made fires before each, to make it look as if some one lived in the nyunnoos. First he would go into one nyunnoo, or humpy, and cry like […]

The Beast Slayer

Brothers Grimm
German

Intermediate

15 min read

Once upon a time, there was a man and his wife who were very poor. The man earned his living making wooden bowls and platters to sell and worked early and late, but wooden bowls and platters were so very cheap that he could barely support his family no matter how hard he worked. The […]

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